tumbler

Example Sentences

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And since each sphere, though itself dead, seldom carries fewer than 150,000 fertile seeds, and sometimes as many as a quarter of a million, every tumbler leaves a vast wake of potential Russian thistle plants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Meanwhile, the squad is composed of misfits, hotheads, third-year “seniors” and even a narcoleptic tumbler with a solid split.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

It was an unexpected decision - coffee has always been popular in southern states, traditionally served strong and frothy in a steel tumbler.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

The deflated grippers can conformably hold on to a tumbler without dropping it, even when a coin is dropped inside.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2024

One girl—the tumbler, number eighty-eight from before—actually crawls up her father like he’s a tree, and ends up atop his shoulders, cock-a-doodle-doo-ing from on high, to celebrate being kept for the next round of auditions.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle